Less Stargate :(
Jun. 4th, 2026 10:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shivverAmazon announced a couple of days ago that the new Stargate series has been canceled. They'd announced it back in November, that it would be continuation of the franchise rather than a reboot. For the past six months, then, it's been developed by some of the writers from the original SG-1 and supported by the original producers.
The announcement from Amazon came from whatever department head is in charge of those types of shows, and it said that they decided that the franchise doesn't have a broad appeal, that it only appeals to fans of the original series. The announcement also stated that they might choose to resume the project in the future, but if they do, it will be without anyone associated with the original three series.
Which tells me that what they really want to do is slap the "Stargate" name on a generic sci-fi property that they already have in the works. This may even be similar to the possibility that Doctor Who is changing formats, which I talked about in my last post. The rumor is that DW is changing from monster-of-the-week to a full-season story format, because that's what's popular now. Well, SG-1 and SGA were both planet-of-the-week series and the writers that were working on the series said that's what they were trying to preserve. So, it makes sense that the same thing would happen to the new SG show, that it would be shoehorned into the newer popular format, just like DW.
Anyway, time will tell. At this point, I'm mostly just living for Nathan Fillion's new Firefly cartoon. SG is just sad. DW will sort itself out and, as I said last time, I'll watch it and will turn back to the stuff I love if it isn't for me.
The announcement from Amazon came from whatever department head is in charge of those types of shows, and it said that they decided that the franchise doesn't have a broad appeal, that it only appeals to fans of the original series. The announcement also stated that they might choose to resume the project in the future, but if they do, it will be without anyone associated with the original three series.
Which tells me that what they really want to do is slap the "Stargate" name on a generic sci-fi property that they already have in the works. This may even be similar to the possibility that Doctor Who is changing formats, which I talked about in my last post. The rumor is that DW is changing from monster-of-the-week to a full-season story format, because that's what's popular now. Well, SG-1 and SGA were both planet-of-the-week series and the writers that were working on the series said that's what they were trying to preserve. So, it makes sense that the same thing would happen to the new SG show, that it would be shoehorned into the newer popular format, just like DW.
Anyway, time will tell. At this point, I'm mostly just living for Nathan Fillion's new Firefly cartoon. SG is just sad. DW will sort itself out and, as I said last time, I'll watch it and will turn back to the stuff I love if it isn't for me.
